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The OpenStack Conference agenda for the first two days of the 4 day event is now finalized and ready for attendee consumption. The Design Summit agenda for the final 3 days of the event is still in active development following a process detailed here.

All attendees will receive a program guide with the agenda at the event and we have also published the agenda via an online tool with options to download the agenda to your smart phone. The published online agenda is at http://openstack-spring2011.sched.org/.

April 26, 2011 Day 1

GENERAL SESSION

9:00 am – 9:15 am

Welcome & OpenStack Vision

Jim Curry (Rackspace Hosting)

9:15 am – 9:45 am

OpenStack – Where We Are

John Purrier (Rackspace Hosting)

9:45 am – 10:30 am

NASA and OpenStack

James Williams (NASA)

10:30 am – 10:45 am

BREAK

10:45 am – 11:30 am

The Site Architecture You Can Edit

Ryan Lane (Wikimedia Foundation)

11:30 am – 12:15 pm

eBay and OpenStack

Neal Sample (eBay)

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

LUNCH

1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

The Opportunity for OpenStack

Gordon Mangione (Citrix Systems)

COMMUNITY TRACK

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

Collaboration Tools in OpenStack

Thierry Carrez

2:45 pm – 3:30 pm

Golden Configuration Automated Testing

Jesse Andrews

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Introduction to the OW2 Open Source Cloudware Initiative

Cedric Thomas and Denis Caromel

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Governance Policy Panel

Jonathan Bryce

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

OpenStack NTT Data Perspective

Yoichi Kihara

TECHNICAL TRACK

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

OpenStack API Extensions

Jorge Williams

2:45 pm – 3:30 pm

PaaS on OpenStack

Nati Shalom

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Networking in OpenStack Compute

Hisaharu Ishii

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

OpenStack Dashboard

Devin Carlen

4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Scaling Applications in the Cloud

Sebastian Stadil

April 27, 2011 Day 2

USER TRACK

9:00 am – 9:45 am

Trusted Pools in Cloud Architecture

Raghu Yeluri & Jim Greene

9:45 am – 10:30 am

The Switch That’s Just Another Server

Kenneth Duda

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Petascale Cloud File-System Design and Implementation

Anand Babu Peroasamy

11:00 am – 12:00 am

Standing up an OpenStack Cloud in Intel Architecture

Billy Cox

12:00 – 1:00 pm

LUNCH

StackOps MeetUp in Developer Lounge

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

OpenStack – The Time is Now

Lew Tucker (Cisco)

SERVICE PROVIDER TRACK sponsored by DELL

1:45 pm – 2:15 pm

Cloud Service Providers and OpenStack: Opportunity and Action Plan

Bernard Golden

2:15 pm -3:00 pm

Commercialization of OpenStack Object Storage

Jaesuk Ahn and Andrew Shafer

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Integrated Managed Services NG Stack via OpenStack

Paul Pettigrew

3:45 pm – 4:30 pm

Bootstrapping Hyperscale Clouds

Rob Hirschfeld

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Group Discussion on Service Provider Plans and Initiatives Leveraging OpenStack

Hosted by Bernard Golden

Finally, we have three parties set for the event to allow for time to relax and get to know your fellow OpenStack community members: